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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Robert Desbois <ro...@chronos.co.uk> on 2005/10/11 17:29:21 UTC
re[2]: [users@httpd] Configure silent windows [MSI] installation
I don't believe it is - I've foudn out all of the syntax from the MSDN site, as far as I can tell, because it is an MSI file, any configuration must be passed as PARAMETER=VALUE pairs on the command line, e.g. something like
msiexec /i /qn apache-blah.msi domain=mydomain.com ...
If I am right in thinking this, then the parameters are part of the installer, hence it is an httpd question. If not, apologies :)
Rob
Subject : RE: [users@httpd] Configure silent windows [MSI] installation
Date : Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:34:00 +0100
From : "Guenther, Christian" <Ch...@realtech.com>
To : <us...@httpd.apache.org>
this is a question for a microsoft msi installer mailinglist - if there is such thing and you don't need to bye professional support
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From: Robert Desbois [mailto:robert.desbois@chronos.co.uk]
Sent: Tue 11.10.2005 15:44
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Subject: [users@httpd] Configure silent windows [MSI] installation
Hi,
I wish to bundle Apache 2 into an installer. I would prefer to have the Apache installation proceed silently (msiexec /qn apache-blah.msi) but cannot find how to configure what options are chosen during the installation (e.g. network domain, server name, admin email, service vs. program, etc.)
I found some sites mentioning creating a setup.iss file, but this seems to be useful only if the msi is compiled into an exe.
Does anybody know how to achieve this, or any alternative method?
Thanks,
Rob
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re[2]: [users@httpd] Configure silent windows [MSI] installation
Posted by "Mark H. Wood" <mw...@IUPUI.Edu>.
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On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Robert Desbois wrote:
> I don't believe it is - I've foudn out all of the syntax from the MSDN
> site, as far as I can tell, because it is an MSI file, any configuration
> must be passed as PARAMETER=VALUE pairs on the command line, e.g.
> something like msiexec /i /qn apache-blah.msi domain=mydomain.com ...
Yes. IIRC this just adds a row ("domain","mydomain.com") to the in-memory
instance of the PROPERTIES table in the installer database.
> If I am right in thinking this, then the parameters are part of the
> installer, hence it is an httpd question. If not, apologies :)
Well, actually, with MSI the parameters being part of the installer would
mean that it is *not* an httpd question. But they aren't. MSIEXEC is the
installer, and it comes with Windows. Each package may be dependent on
the values of parameters which are defined by the package's maker, and
MSIEXEC just makes their values available for testing when the package is
interpreted. A proper MSI-based executable "installer" just disgorges a
.msi into a scratch directory and invokes MSIEXEC on it with the
appropriate arguments (and should be able to just unpack itself and *not*
call MSIEXEC when so instructed, for those of us who must do mass
deployments via Group Policy!).
So if the package (apache-blah.msi) accepts parameters which customize its
installation then the meanings and permitted values of those parameters
are indeed an httpd question, or at least a question for the person who
makes the MSI package. Listizens on a list for MSI questions wouldn't be
able to answer such a question, since they didn't design the package and
don't know what its database contains.
- --
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu
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